Sous Chef

Location: dmg media Headquarters - London
Position: Permanent/ Full Time

Job Introduction

You will be working alongside the Head Chef to manage daily kitchen activities, including overseeing staff, aiding with menu preparation, ensuring food quality and freshness, and monitoring ordering and stocking. Provides meal quality and consistency by following designed recipes.

Main Responsibilities

• Support the Head Chef in managing the kitchen team and food production
• Deputise for the Head Chef when absent or on leave
• Implement and maintain standards for food production, development and chef behaviours on site
• Deliver craft-based training and mentoring to the site based junior team
• Drive sales and profitability through implementing both individual and food-team initiatives
• Ensure our teams work in clean, safe and compliant working environments.
• Ensure standards for food presentation are maintained at all times
• Ensure food policy and strategy in areas such as allergen management are implemented and followed and food safety is proactively managed across the business.
• Support proactive client and customer relationships.

Person Specification

• A strong communicator, who can easily interact with customers, clients, team members and senior management
• Diligent, committed and with a desire to continually learn and improve
• Proactive with a positive attitude
• Punctual and a good timekeeper
• A team player with the ability to motivate, encourage and inspire others
• Good organisational skills
• Ability to bring creativity and flair into the everyday

Technical Competency & Experience

• Technically proficient and qualified to an industry-recognised standard
• Level 3 Food Hygiene qualified as a minimum
• Minimum 1 year' experience in a similar role
• Demonstrate excellence, breadth of experience and relevant work history across a range of environments
• Good numeracy skills, financially aware and able to work within budget
• Good oral and written language skills
• Solid understanding of the requirements menu management within different operational and commercial contractual models

Health, Safety & Environment

• Follow Group and Company policies and procedures at all times
• Report any apparent deficiencies in systems of work or equipment provided that may result in failure of service delivery or risk to health and safety or the environment
• Use all work equipment and personal PPE properly and in accordance with training received
• Report any issues or training needs to your Line manager and /or via your divisional incident reporting system

Package Description

Our benefits package increases the longer you've been with us. Here's what to expect:

• 25 days' holiday (increasing by 1 per year up to a total of 30)
• Pension plan and life cover
• Discounts on online shopping, dining cards and vouchers, and access to our Employee Assistance Programme
• Onsite gym, subsidised canteen and onsite nurse and GP clinics

Plus much more

About dmg media

dmg media maintains an unwavering commitment to uncovering the stories that matter most. Its brands Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday, MailOnline, Mail+, Metro, The i Paper and New Scientist reach more than 9 million people daily in the UK.

Its global newsroom of journalists, formidable story-getting power, and breadth of content formats, delivers highly engaging, trusted content to loyal and new audiences, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

The Mail brand reaches three in five Brits every month and is officially the best-read, most recognised, most engaged newsbrand in the country. It is the largest news publisher on TikTok with over 21 million total followers and nearly 30 billion views in the past year.

We are committed to increasing diversity and maintaining an inclusive workplace culture. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of their ethnicity, race, gender, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability.

We are Disability Confident Committed. Please let us know if you require any recruitment documentation in other formats or if you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process. Please be assured that any such information will be held separately to your recruitment application and will not be considered as part of the selection process.

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